I think one of the comments of the linked article made the best point, his science teacher should have caught the mistake.
Education and journalism FAIL...
What you have to understand about middle school science teachers is that they optimistically have less electronics and physics knowledge than a first-year undergraduate in either of those majors - and the same goes for most tech bloggers.
But the media should really learn to stop taking anything that's published as being gospel truth. Maybe making this mistake over a 13 year-old will teach them that. (Yeah, right.)
The media publish what their audience wants to look at.
Don't wait on the media, wait on the public, and seek out media outlets not by how much you respect the publisher, but by how much you respect the taste of the audience.
